The Holy Synod of Bishops is deeply worried, due
to the most recent events in Kosovo and Metohia
and the latest exodus of our people living in
that province. Therefore, the Holy Synod of
Bishops addresses International forces, now
occupying Kosovo and Metohia, to protect equally
the rights of the Albanians and their return to
their homes, as well as the Serbian people and
the members of the other nationalities living in
Kosovo and Metohia.

We also request the urgent protection of the
monasteries of the Patriarchate of Pec,
monasteries Decani and Gracanica, and other great
shrines of the Serbian people.

We also approach our brothers from Kosovo and
Metohia with the appeal to stay on their
centuries-long hearths and not to abandon their
shrines, being convinced in the truthfulness of
Christ's words: "He who endures to the end, he
will be saved".

Faced with the tragic position of all our people
and of the Federal state, convinced that the
final judgement and justice lies in the name of
God, and not in the instrumentalized Tribunal in
the Hague, at the same time we demand the present
President of the State and his Government to
resign, so that new people, acceptable to the
domestic and international public, could, as the
Government of National Salvation, take over the
responsibility for their people and its future.

Every reasonable man understands clearly that
numerous internal problems and contradictions, as
well as the isolation of our country on the
international level, cannot be settled and
overcome with such a government, and under the
present conditions.